I met my friend Paul at summer camp. Paul was a canoe-tripper—most famous for the summer he abandoned his campers for three days alone and unsupervised on an island in LaVérendrye Wildlife Reserve. He ...

In the 1950s and 60s stamp collecting was a widespread hobby with around half of young Britons boasting a collection of some sort. Since then, philately's popularity has waned somewhat. But still many ...

RONKONKOMA, N.Y. (CBSNewYork)-- A meticulously labeled stamp collection left behind on a train includes some mementos that are centuries old, some from the Confederacy and others from around the globe ...

My mom started [collecting] in the late 1930s . . . in anticipation of her three kids going to college . . . and bought . . . newly issued commemoratives, [paying] $3 ...

As a young boy, I had several thousand stamps in my collection. Back then, receiving a letter in the post meant new stamps! I still remember receiving my first stamp of Ireland, attached to a letter ...

The number of Indian stamps in the collection were almost thrice the number of stamps of other countries, although the fewer foreign stamps created a niche for themselves by coming in triangular, ...